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Page xxv - All which I took from thee I did but take, Not for thy harms, But just that thou might'st seek it in My arms. All which thy child's mistake Fancies as lost, I have stored for thee at home: Rise, clasp My hand, and come ! " Halts by me that footfall : Is my gloom, after all, Shade of His hand, outstretched caressingly?
Page xxv - Turn but a stone, and start a wing ! *Tis ye, 'tis your estranged faces, That miss the many-splendoured thing. But (when so sad thou canst not sadder) Cry ; — and upon thy so sore loss Shall shine the traffic of Jacob's ladder Pitched betwixt Heaven and Charing Cross.
Page xxv - The angels keep their ancient places; Turn but a stone and start a wing! 'Tis ye, 'tis your estranged faces, That miss the many-splendoured thing.
Page xxvi - Comely and calm, he rides Hard by his own Whitehall: Only the night wind glides: No crowds, nor rebels, brawl. Gone, too, his Court; and yet, The stars his courtiers are: Stars in their stations set; And every wandering star.
Page 142 - A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston, perpetrated in the Evening of the Fifth Day of March, 1770: By Soldiers of the XXIXth Regiment: which with the XlVth Regiment were then Quartered there. With some Observations on the State of Things prior to that Catastrophe.
Page 240 - A SHORT STORY OF THE RISE, REIGN AND RUIN OF THE ANTINOMIANS, FAMILISTS AND LIBERTINES THAT INFECTED THE CHURCHES OF NEW ENGLAND...
Page 224 - A Collection of Poems, in Two Volumes ; Being all the Miscellanies of Mr. William Shakespeare, which were Publish'd by himself in the Year 1609. and now correctly Printed from those Editions.
Page 208 - All the editions of this work bear the Middleborough imprint, and are without date. There is considerable doubt as to whether any of them was printed there, and it is also certain that some of them were printed in London. The edition described above is generally thought to have been printed in 1596, and is THE FIRST IN WHICH THE WORK APPEARED IN ITS COMPLETE FORM. The second translation of the 15th Elegie, first book, is by Ben Jonson; his earliest printed production.
Page xxiii - Oh, is the water sweet and cool, Gentle and brown, above the pool? And laughs the immortal river still Under the mill, under the mill? Say, is there Beauty yet to find? And Certainty? and Quiet kind? Deep meadows yet, for to forget The lies, and truths, and pain? ... oh! yet Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?
Page 249 - HISTORY of the colonization of the free states of antiquity, applied to the present contest between Great Britain and her American colonies.